TEMECULA: Comedian Andy Dick arrested at restaurant

TEMECULA ---- Comedian Andy Dick was arrested Monday night in
Temecula for allegedly being drunk and disorderly in public.

Officers were sent to the Marie Callender's restaurant on Rancho
California Road shortly after 9 p.m. after being notified that a
man was causing a disturbance inside. Once they arrived, they found
Dick intoxicated in the bar area.

"Mr. Dick displayed the objective symptoms associated with
alcohol intoxication, and he was unable to care for his own
safety," Temecula police Lt. Bob Moquin stated in a news release.
As a result, he said, the officers arrested Dick on suspicion of
public intoxication.

Dick was booked at Southwest Detention Center in French Valley
at 9:48 a.m. and was later released after posting $500 bail, jail
records show.

Messages left for his attorney weren't immediately returned
Tuesday.

Dick has a history of arrests.

Last year, he was charged with sexual abuse over allegations
that he groped a bouncer at a West Virginia bar.

And nearly three years ago, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor
battery and received probation after being found drunk outside
Buffalo Wild Wings in Murrieta on July 16, 2008.

Murrieta police were called to Buffalo Wild Wings on Murrieta
Hot Springs Road to investigate reports that a possibly drunk man
was causing a disturbance and urinating in the parking lot. Dick,
who had earlier been drinking inside the business, was in a pickup
that was pulled over by officers in the parking lot.

The comedian was arrested after a 17-year-old girl reported to
officers in the parking lot that he grabbed at her and pulled down
her tank top, exposing her breasts.

Dick was sentenced to three years' probation and fined somewhere
in the neighborhood of $700, prosecutors said at the time.